Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,2 (2021) 37-55
Keywords:
Bible Language, style
;
Hebrew language, Biblical Suffixes and prefixes
;
Motion in language
Abstract:
In most cases, the directive he suffix in Biblical Hebrew indicates objective movement toward a physical goal. However, Hebraists have also identified a substantial number of examples in which the directive he is not associated with objective movement, as for example in Leviticus 1:11, where the word “northern” in “He shall kill it on the northern side of the altar” is marked with the directive he. These examples have been described either as irregular uses of the clitic or as evidence of a location-marking function for the directive he. However, a close examination of these clauses shows that almost all are expressions of fictive motion to a goal – an environment in which the use of the goal-marking he would be expected.
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